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Gita Jayanti 2010 Brisbane
Date: Sunday 19th December 2010
The "Gita Jayanti" special event was celebrated at the Shri Laxmi-Narayan Mandir in Brisbane with about 100 Devotees, despite the rainy season. Devotees from the ISKCON Brisbane Temple recited the full Bhagavat Gita…
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- Dina-Anukampana Das
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- http://www.gitajayanti.ning.com
- Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.
- at least 16
- When, where and how did you come into contact with the Hare Krishna Movement?
- my grandma was quite mad about Krishna - she never spoke about anything else, so far as I remember!!
(When I first met her [Penang 1970] I was 5, and she showed me her Krsna deity - "This is Krishna, He is God. So you bow down at His lotus feet." <- End of lecture!)
(When I was10, she stayed a few days with us (S'pore). She spent at least 30mins2teach me2recite 'om namo bhagavate vaasudevaaya' - something I used2do off & on subsequently...)
Then when I was in college (S'pore '83) she gave us our first transcendental book - it was Srila Prabhupada's Krsna Book, the2vol ed. in a blue box - she'd bought a carton foll of these books to distribute! No one at home ever read the books.. they just lay in my parents room.... A few years later disciples of SP set up a preaching centre on the same street where we live! My parents met them and took up krsna consciousness very spontaneously. But I avoided it... never once stepped in to that centre!!
5 years later ('88), when I was a university student in London, by my dad's insistence and forcing [he used to call me every day and beg me to read it!!!!!], I read the Bhagavad Gita As It Is and my heart changed after reading just one page, my entire life changed!
That was on 11th Feb 1988, in London... This was quite amazing, esp. considering that I was reading it under great duress.. ha ha ha! Actually my flat-mates, other boys from Singapore, began to call me 'Baby' because my father was calling me every day!!! So just to get him off my case and to get my friends to stop teasing me (something which i simply could not tolerate) I promised my father, 'i'll read for 30 mins every night if you promise to STOP CALLING ME and harassing me every day.' He agreed to the deal, then he said, "And will you go to the hare krsna temple this sunday?" but i snapped, 'Now don't ask for too much' and i hung up the telephone!!!
And a few hrs later, keeping my promise to read for 30 mins before sleeping, there i was, reading the Gita, expecting it 2b a most boring and irrelevant book... yet the first line i read (16:1) captured my heart.... every word i read i could feel it resounding in my heart... and i just could not put down the book... i kept flipping from one part to another, but everywhere, every line was beautiful truth - logical, scientific, devoted yet never fanatic nor condemning.... I had to force myself to stop reading it at about 2 or 3 am!! Immediately i started chanting the mahamantra....everyday, while cycling, while studying, while walking, even while hearing my lectures in college, and boy o boy did my life begin to change!!
So that's the story of how this fallen wretch came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's movement - by the mercy of my grand ma and my father!
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(actually, remembering grandma... when i was 18, she once told me, 'When you grow up you have to teach the Bhagavad Gita all over the world.' And i looked at her like she was crazy! I had never ever seen the book - only heard of it once from one of my school friends, but had no inclination to read it... She then said, 'All my children are in maya. I have been praying2Krishna for 40 years that 1 of them should preach His message for everyone's benefit, but now i think 1 of my grandchildren will do it, & i think it will be you.' Strangely, I forgot this completely... & it was only a year or two after i made the decision, with my parents' blessings, to become a full time devotee, that the memory of that conversation suddenly came back to me - I was reading in the Gita or Bhagavatam how we can only come to the path of Krsna Consciousness by the grace of a devotee, no other way.. so i started thinking back... & all those events with my grandma described above came back one by one..... so i quickly packed my bags&rushed to malaysia 2c her.... I found her home & was surprised2see she had taken sannyas (she was a disciple of Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh fame). I bowed at her feet, & she aske..
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- Name the nearest and most frequently Visited ISKCON temple/ centre and name few of the devotees whom you know.
- devotees in singapore
- Please describe yourself so that other like minded devotees can find you.
- humble dog of srila gurudev, trying to be of any little service to him. i have interest in BI work, singing gita slokas (see wwww.gitajayanti.org), university preaching, and conducting short courses on krsna conscious aspects of personality development (eg. anger management www.dinaanu.on.to)
- What are your expectations from this community?
- If this site can help us strengthen Srila Prabhupada's family through spiritual friendship and networking for preaching endeavours, sharing resources etc.
- Describe any specific service you would love to offer to Lord Krishna & His devotees?
- I love sharing my discoveries in Sanskrit pronunciation with devotees - it's a short 2hrs x 4 lessons course - i just did one for devotees in Iskcon Brisbane and it was well received. I also have a special interest in trying to improve japa, and i'd like to share the resources at my site www.mangalarati.welcome.to with devotees, if it may help them or enthuse them in their practice of krsna consciousness, especially if they are home-based devotees.
Here's another thing - pls see www.happydollsvideo.on.to - this project has taken off in a wonderful way and hundreds of homes in Auckland NZ and Brisbane Aust now have Happy Dolls installed!! More details later when the website www.happydolls.on.to is up and running! Hare Krishna!
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- At 2:37pm on October 31, 2011,
srinivas reddy molaka said… - Hare krishna prabhu!
- At 1:24pm on May 9, 2011,
Krishy Sehgal said… Hare Krishna Prabhuji! :)
Thank you for letting me know about the Happy Dolls :) Its sounds awesome :)
I am no longer in Perth however, I am in Singapore for Educational reasons, and have recently visited ISKCON Singapore for Mangala arati and found it magical :)
I have made a friend with a Prabhuji who invited me for the Mangal arati, and i hope my contact with him will lead me to have even more faith in Krishna :)
Thank you for your message Prabhuji, It is a pleasure to hear from you again! :)
Hare Krishna :)
- At 11:21am on March 19, 2011,
pushyami said… - Please Accept My Humble Obeisances Unto Your Holy Feet, Prabhuji.
i had saw u in iskcon vijayawada 2 yrs back giving Sanskrit Pronunciation course on BG and i had also served prasadam to u & ur father in prasadam hall,
yr servant
pushymi
- At 10:27pm on March 12, 2011, pushyami said…
hare krishna prabhu...
Please Accept My Humble Obeisances
- At 6:52pm on March 8, 2011,
KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM said… Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare...
Please Accept My Humble Obeisances Unto Your Holy Feet, Prabhuji.
Thank you very much for your kind reply, blessings and the most valuable pieces of advice. Due to working in shift duties, I am able to chant only 08 to 10 rounds per day. By the sheer causeless mercy of my spiritual counsellor, Shri Adbhuta Gauranga Das Prabhuji of Hyderabad, I am sending spiritual quotes to about 1000 devotees for the past six months. I am attending Bhagavad Gita / Bhagavatam classes every week in house programmes at Chennai. Listening to your Bhagavad Gita Cassettee while driving car. Having Krishna Prasadam. Once again thanking you for your wonderful advice and your divine blessings. Hare Krishna
- At 2:34pm on February 22, 2011,
Sevakpadmavati dasi said…
- At 8:38am on February 22, 2011,
Saci Gaurasundara Das said… Hare Krsna!!
Wish you a very happy KC b'day, May lord Sri Krsna & Smt. Radha Rani blessed you always. We pray to supreme personality of godhead (Krsna) that this is your last birth in this material world & you never take birth again in this material world.
Hari Bol
- At 11:53am on January 28, 2011,
subhkrtdas said… pahmo to dina prabhu
hare krsnaat twitter @namashray
mayapur
- At 11:50am on January 28, 2011, subhkrtdas said…
- At 9:48pm on December 27, 2010, KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM said…
Hare Krishna Prabhuji, Please Accept My Humble Obesiances unto your Holy Feet.
I am K.V.Subrahmanyam, from Chennai. We met at ISKCON Vijayawada Temple while you have delivered speech on correct pronounciation of language. You have given me some photos (Soft copies) also. I have dropped you in my car to Guntur Temple. I have two small kids Indra Pavan & Bharati. Now I got transferred from Vijayawada to Chennai. I think by now, u might have recollected me.
Kindly bless and pray for this most downfallen soul.
Yours servant
K.V.Subrahmanyam
09840478931
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